Background
Adrienne Catherine Haan was born in Essen, Germany on April 7, 1978. Her father, Professor Doctor Jean Joseph Haan, Doctor of Medicine., is a famous neurologist, and her mother worked as an MRT.
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Haan graduated from in 1999. She also studied at The Juilliard School in New York City and at the Cologne School of Music and Dance.
Career
She holds dual citizenship in Germany and Luxembourg. In 2007, Haan married Klaus Liever. She has one brother, Pascal Frédérique Haan.
Haan is an actress and cabaret artist who specializes in music of the 1920s and 30s.
Since 2007, she has performed in cabarets and on concert stages in the United States, Europe, Israel and Australia where is known for historically accurate renditions of songs in English, Germany, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. She has performed at Carnegie Hall and as soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Northwest German Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra, WDR Funkhausorchester, Jacques Offenbach Orchestra Cologne, the WDR Big Band Cologne Concept Big band with Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks Orchestra, WDR Radio Choir, the Deutz Choir and the German Television.
Her theater and musical productions include lead roles in Les Misérables, Evita, Cats, Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard, King Henry VI, and Richard III. Her cabaret show, The Streets of Berlin, is based on Berlin, mon amour, her most recent Civil Defense which was released in both German and English in 2010. Both the show and the recording include works by Mischa Spoliansky, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht arranged for voice, big band and string quartet by Heinz Walter Florin.
Her earlier CDs include music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Claude-Michel Schönberg, among others
In Europe, she has appeared on the "Westdeutscher Rundfunk" Television Channel. In New York City Haan serves on the International Advisory Board of the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts. 2010: Berlin, Mon Amour - Berlinica
2006: I Could Have Danced All Night - Readers Digest
2003: Born to Entertain: - Hansahaus Studios in Bonn (Germany).
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Luxembourg